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Item Details
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ENVISIONING THE CITY
SIX STUDIES IN URBAN CARTOGRAPHY |
| By: |
David Buisseret |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£61.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226079937 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226079936 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 July, 1998 |
| Edition: |
2nd ed. |
| Series: |
The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography 1998 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Everyone who lives in a city sees it differently. This text explores how these different points of view have been expressed in city plans throughout history, using such examples as 17th-century maps emphasizing the impregnable fortifications and Burnham's 1909 plan "selling" his idea of Chicago. |
| Synopsis: |
Churchman or merchant, soldier or sanitary engineer, everyone who lives in a city sees it differently. Envisioning the City explores how these points of urban view have been expressed in city plans. Ranging from vertical plans to bird's-eye views, profiles, and three-dimensional models, these diverse maps all show cities "the way people want to see them." Whether a Chinese vertical city plan from the first millennium B.C. or a bird's-eye view appended to a fifteenth-century edition of Ptolemy's Geography, the type of plan chosen and its focus reflected the aspects of a city that the map's creators wished to highlight. For instance, maps of seventeenth-century cities emphasized impregnable fortifications as a deterrent to potential attackers. And Daniel Burnham's famous 1909 Plan of Chicago used a distinct representational style to "sell" his version of the new Chicago. Although city plans are among the oldest maps known, few books have been devoted to them. Historians of cartography and geography, architects, and urban planners will all enjoy this profusely illustrated volume. |
| Illustrations: |
94 halftones, 41 line drawings |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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